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Your current browser edition of the monthly statistics provides the U.S. market research company Net Applications with a veritable warning: "The holidays in December," they wrote, "have been strongly in favor of the home to use the business-use impact. This in turn increases the relative market share of Macs, Safari, Firefox and other products with a relatively high rate of home use. Therefore, all users of statistics for December, against this background read. "
Internet Browser: At home is different than in the office gesurft
The friendly warning before the Wackler in the statistics bear in itself a message: If computer users no official sit in front of the computer, they use different machines and programs as in the workplace. Then lies - as in December 2008 - according to
Net Applications market share worldwide market share of Apple's Mac OS X is not at 8.87 percent, but at 9.63 percent. And of course, the December figures show losses of market share of Internet Explorer, and corresponding increases in the alternative browsers (see table).
The only question is whether this really is on December. Even the show the Net Applications numbers: The trend in the browser market is as stable as the long term. The losses of Internet Explorer in December 2008 to coincide with the November minus 1.62 percent barely larger than losses in the November compared with October (minus 1.5 percent).
The change is accelerating
Within a year, the Explorer is now 7.89 percent market share. In the year before it was only just under four percent. In short: The loss of market share is accelerating, according to increase the market share of Safari, Opera, Google Chrome recently, especially Firefox.
Browser Charts December 2008
Place
 Browser
 Market share
 Change from previous month
Change from same month previous year
1
Internet Explorer
68.15%
-1.62%
-7.89%
2
Firefox
21.34%
+0.56%
+4.54%
3
Safari
7.93%
+0.80%
+2.34%
4
Chrome
1.04%
+0.21%
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5
Opera
0.71%
+ / -0%
+0.07%
6
Netscape
0.57%
-0.04%
-0.09%
7
Other
0.26%
+0.01%
+0.07%
Worldwide percent market share according to Net Applications
And the 2009, could accelerate - the browser market could be a year of decision-making experience. This contributes not only to ensure that your browser alternatives of more and more users than perceived to be better products, which they then use their private prefer, but may also help the policy under: News, the EU Commission from Microsoft,
Browser software and operating system to decouple. It could once again to walk a delicate fine that could reach billions.
That seems like a belated response to the "browser war between Microsoft and Netscape in the nineties and the subsequent antitrust litigation against Microsoft, but as a measure against distortions thought: As before, the EU Commission in the preinstall Internet Explorer an unfair competitive advantage. For ten years the Commission rangelt from this and other reasons, with Microsoft, growled the group so far in fines of 1.7 billion euros.
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Browser survey in January 2009: Office machines
Which browser you use in your workplace?
Internet Explorer
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Google Chrome
Netscape
another
Now the EU Commission is considering even the delivery of Windows, or PC with preinstalled operating systems, with a selection of alternative browsers to force. The "home advantage" of Internet Explorer would be so at least in Europe evaporate.
Not that the still would be very large. The European market is in terms of browser use completely different than the international - nowhere are Microsoft's market share lower and higher Mozilla. In Germany in particular, Mozilla's Firefox is on the way to the majority of browsers will.
Germany: tilting majorities
In the User statistics of blogs online, it's the weekend already long. They show Firefox at about 50 per cent share when the companies expect computer, while Internet Explorer is now below 35 percent before hindümpelt. This however is not representative: the readership well informed in matters of IT, the higher the usage rate of alternative browsers. Users of blogs ONLINE shank is evident here on the average.
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Browser survey in January 2009: Private use
Which browser do you prefer on your home computer?
Internet Explorer
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Google Chrome
Netscape
another
But the average German is slowly approaching this image, it maintains at least the latest
W3B survey of the market research company
Fittkau & Maass. The attempts since 1995 to focus on the demographics of German web users and their preferences to be recorded. 2009, the researchers believe, will show whether Firefox (...) the total will reach market leadership. " Because in the field of "modern" browser have the latest generation of Firefox in Germany has already obtained: Firefox 2 o'clock-3 o'clock would be combined with nearly 38 percent market share against Internet Explorer 7 with 37 percent.
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Two against one is designed a little, but overall, the Internet Explorer browser in Germany to just fell 53.9 percent market share, say Fittkau & Maass, the Mozilla browser was Microsoft with 38.9 percent on the heels. "Should this trend continue," concluded the German market researcher, "it is only a matter of time until the Firefox leadership role among the browsers."
The browser market in 1996 until the end of 2008: the rise and decline of the Explorers, down from Netscape / Mozilla - and returned as a Firefox
This issue will also have to decide whether Microsoft succeeds with the Internet Explorer 8 to the quality rivals Firefox, Safari and Opera catch. Shows increases in the past two months, the repaired Google Chrome browser, its worldwide market share of 1.04 percent but with caution is always releases lead to rashes in a trial phase. It remains to be seen whether Google permanently established in this region may increase or even recorded.
Either way: 2009 is an unusually exciting year on the browser market.
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